MICROBLOGGING

Views on microblogging, is it a good form of communication or just a way for people to update their friends on useless trinkets of information?

I believe microblogging to be a success. With social networking in the rise, I think it’s only an added benefit that such tools as Twitter are being used in a professional context too. Companies are able to communicate with clients in an easy way, a simple shout out of no more than 140 characters and you have informed a lot of people in one go. This sort of communication can help keep the client relationships strong.

Some may understandably dismiss microblogging right away, believing posts to be of no real relevance, and instead just light-hearted updates of information with no relevance to the reader. However i couldn’t disagree more. I believe twitter, and other real time media platforms open up the opportunity for people to play witness to events as they happen. Take for example a car crash, or the recent volcano in Iceland. People tweet about it or write on any other social networking site, as it happens, allowing others who might not have already been aware f the event to know.

As with anything, microblogging is not without its concerns.There are worries to do with the privacy for example. There is the risk of user-submitted content being submitted by a non-employe or someone out to make ‘a fool of’ someone or a company. However, understanding the pricy control and adhering to it correctly would diminish all chances of this, surely?

In short, i believe microblogging to be a success, and as long and government run organizations or professional companies (etc) understand and make use of the privacy control, i can’t see how people will not be benefited by the use of microblogging.